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SFO is the airport. I'm very confused by this comment. We're not all working at Google right now. MTV, SFO, MPK and all of this lingo is not familiar to all
by msoad 4y ago
SFO is the airport. I'm very confused by this comment. We're not all working at Google right now.
MTV, SFO, MPK and all of this lingo is not familiar to all
- lotsofpulp 4y agoPeople sometimes use major airport codes as shorthand for a city or the metropolitan region the airport serves.
- simonw 4y agoPeople who live in San Francisco don't use SFO to refer to the city. The airport is actually a couple of cities away (there are a lot of cities in the Bay Area).
- soperj 4y agoPeople who use airport codes to refer to cities don't care.
- hotpotamus 4y agoAnd anyplace without a major airport is "flyover country" often to the chagrin of people who live there.
- yardie 4y agoI would hope not, considering many major cities are serviced by multiple major airports. NYC - JFK LGA EGW PARIS - CDG ORY London - LGW LHR Tokyo - NRT HND SF - SFO SJC If someone starts refering to a city by the airport code I'd be completely lost because most airports and their codes don't reflect the name of the city they service.
- hot_gril 4y agoSJC doesn't really serve SF. You can say OAK sorta does, but not really. It's pretty clearly SFO. Also, the BART line to SF is called SFO (used to be called whatever terminating city until they realized that's stupid).
- nsxwolf 4y agoWe have the best pizza in ORD
- warkdarrior 4y agoIndeed ORD-style pizza is the best.
- elcomet 4y agoI'd say the worst
- lotsofpulp 4y agoIt is not pizza, so it cannot be best or worst pizza.
- elcomet 4y agoOn that we agree, but it's still bad, whatever you call it
- rootusrootus 4y agoWe have a datacenter there, so I'd totally know exactly what city you meant by that. I wouldn't say we always call Chicago ORD, but it definitely happens.
- hot_gril 4y agoBack to that same old place, sweet home ORD.
- kergonath 4y agoFrom my experience doing so is a good way of coming across as a douche tech-bro (“yeah, I’m so cool I use code names”). Particularly when the comprehensible way would be to write SF rather than SFO.
- hot_gril 4y agoI should get a Patagonia that says "SFO" on it. I already have the EECS Supreme shirt.
- astockwell 4y agoSFO is commonly a shorthand for San Francisco, LA for Los Angeles, SD for San Diego.
- thatswrong0 4y agoSF, not SFO
- mikeryan 4y agoUsername checks out.
- fooblaster 4y agono, SFO is an airport
- hot_gril 4y agoSFO, LA, SD. One of those is not like the rest.
- bombcar 4y agoNobody refers to San Diego as SAN, even though LAX is used for LA, the airport, and the train station? Just be glad you don't live in Cumaná I guess.
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